ENGLISH VERSION
School for scandal
If the government often accuses protesting farmers of striving to assert the interests of a sector over those of a nation, a very similar charge could be lodged against those students now occupying the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires — namely, imposing the views of a small minority on public education’s most prestigious institution. The unruly students demanding the right to co-govern the school in the name of “democratization” would seem to be producing their own take on the doctrine of Santa Fe Governor Hermes Binner pronounced on Flag Day in the context of the farm dispute: “Everybody’s rights exceed the rights of the majority” — everybody’s rights might indeed exceed the rights of a majority, the college usurpers would agree, but not the rights of a minority.
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